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Originally Posted by Russ
Yep, keep paying your taxes so we can continue having free prescriptions  |
Prescriptions are free in Wales not through some great socialist ideal, but because it was shown that the system to collect prescription fees cost more than the prescription fees they received.
" Less government money is spent for each person in Wales than in Scotland or Northern Ireland."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-35977052
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The WA is sneaking-in Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol "sometime this summer" after "public consultation".
In other words, they just mirror a lot of what Scotland does, but nothing that costs too much WA money. But more usually hitting Joe Public in the pocket.